Improvement in corn-planter



S MIOKLEY.

Corn Planter.

No. 107,280. Patented Sept. 13, 18 70.

NJEIERS. FHOTO-LITROGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D C.

* I'Hitiifili fittin paanteni SOLOMON MIOKLEY, OF YORK, .assicnon To HIMSELF AND SAMUEL LEATHERY, OF ROSSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 107,280, dated September 13, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTBR.

The Schedulereferred to'in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To allvwhom it may concern Be it known that I, SOLOMON MIoKLnY, of York, in the county of York and in the ,State of Pennsylvauia, have invented certain new ,and useful Iniprovements in Corn-Planter; and do hereby declare the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof}, reference being had to the accompanying drawingand to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a corn-planter, which is so arrangedas to plant corn and sow fertilizer almost simultaneously, and can be adjusted sons to drop the corn either above or below the fertilizer.

In order to enable .-others skilled in the art to which my invention appertainsto make'and use. the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in whicl1 I Figure 1 is a bottom view of my machine;

Figure 2 is a plan viewof the same;

Figure 3 is a vertical section of the fertilizer-hopper; I Figure 4 is a bottom view of the fertilizer-distrib-- uting wheel; and

Figure 5 is a side View of tho corn-dropping mechanism. I

In the drawing, I have not deemed it necessary to show any more than whatis necessary to illustrate what I consider as new and desire to have patented. v

A represents the frame-work of my machine, upon which, in suitable bearings, is placed a horizontal shaft, B.

On the end of the shaft'B, within the frame, is attached the corn-dropper 0, consisting of a wheel, provided with a series of holes through its rim or periphcry, said holes being an equal distance apart, and headed pins, to a, inserted in the same from the inside.

7 The heads of these pins bear against pivoted levers, I) 7), as shown in fig. 5, and surrounding each of said pins, between the head and the inner side of the rim of the wheel 0 is aspiral spring, ll, which forces the pin inward, leaving a recess in the outer periphery of the wheel.

' A corn-hopper being arranged in any suitable manner for the upper portion of the wheel 0 to work in, the corn will fall into these recesses thus formed, and, as each recess approaches the hopper D, the lever b strikes a friction-roller, e, attached in the side'of the frame, so as to force the pin a outward, ejecting the grain of corn 'into said hopper D, from which it passes into the ground.

As soon as the lever 1) leaves the roller e, the spring 11 throws the pin a inward again to its original position.

The shaft B may either itself form the axle on which the driving-wheels are placed, or it may be put in motion by any suitable means from the axle.

On said shaft is keyed or otherwise secured a cogwheel, E, which gears with a similar wheel, G, sc- 7 cured, bya set-screw, f, on a shaft, H, which runs parallel with the shaft B.

The object of making the cog-wheel G adjustable. on the shaft H by means of the set-screw'fwill be hereinafter described.

its-bearings in two cross-bars, m, in the frame A.

Directly overthe wheel h in the-frame'A is placed a plate, I, provided with an annular recess, having an opening directly over the hopper D, asshown by dot-' ted lines in fig. 1.

The shaft 7; passes through the center of a wheel or disk, J, which forms the bottom of the fertilizer-h0pper K. I

This .disk is, onit-s under side, provided with-pins, i t, between which fit the ends of a spring-bar, n, which is fastened onthe shaft It, and thus the disk J is made to revolve when the wheel h andshaft 70 are in motion.

In the edges of thc disk J is a series of notches, at equal distances apart, and on the under side of said disk is placed a ring, 1), provided with a cross-bar, t, through which the shaft 7s also passes.

On one side of each notch or slot in the disk J is a lug, r, extending downward as faras the width of the ring 1), said ring being also provided with lugs, a", so as toform on the under side of the disk, around the edges, a series of small receptacles for fertilizer, which passes down through the slots in theiedge of the disk.

These receptacles may be increased-or diminished in size by turning thcring p, it 'being made adjustable by means of abolt and not through a curved slot in the cross-bar t, as shown in fig.4.

The fertilizer in each of these receptacles is deposited in rotation through the opening in the'recessed plate I, into the hopper D, and from thence intcrthe ground.

Within the fertilizer-hopper K, upon the'shaft k, is' placed the agitator 'L, for. stirring the fertilizer, and

corn has been dropped in the same. This may-he.

and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The'notched or slotted disk J, provided with lugs 0* 7', in combination with theadjustable ring 1;, having lugs 'r' r, all constructed and arrangedto operate substantially-as and for the purposes herein set forth.

'3. In combination with the disk J, constructed as described, the plate I, having an annular recess, pro-. vided with an opening or outlet directly above the hopper D, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth. e

4. The combination of the corn-dropper G and fertilizer-distributerJ, constructed and arranged as described, and adjusted so as to drop the corn and fertilizer either simultaneously, or one in advance of the other, by means of the cog-wheel G, adjusted upon the shaft H, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of May, 1870.

SOLOMON MIOKLEY.

Witnesses:

A. N. MARK, ,ELI Smcrz. 

